81: Humiliated by women

"Go!"

"Tie him up for This Madam! Be quick, don't delay our return to report to the Young Miss!"

Following the order from the leader, a female Cultivator with a hideous scar on her face and only one eye left.

In the team, two of the most burly female Cultivators, with bulging muscles on their arms almost thicker than Lin Chen's thighs, let out two savage laughs and leaped off the bumpy wolf backs!

Their movements were powerful; when they landed, the snow beneath their feet sank sharply, emitting a muffled "pfft" sound.

They were too lazy to even use the battle axes and scimitars hanging at their waists, just using their bare hands, flanking Lin Chen from left and right with a thick aura of Evil Qi!

In their eyes, dealing with such a delicate-looking "little gigolo," whose spiritual energy fluctuation was so weak it could almost be ignored, was completely effortless.

Using weapons would be an... insult to their status as elite hunters of the "Snow Wolf Hunting Team"!

A biting wind mixed with a beast-like stench rushed toward him!

The two female Cultivators' movements were simple, brutal, and without any flair, yet full of battle-hardened techniques!

Their coordination was extremely tacit; clearly, this wasn't their first time doing such a thing!

Their goal was clear!

One reached for Lin Chen's shoulders like a goshawk catching a rabbit, intending to lock his upper body!

The other crouched slightly, attacking his lower base directly, fingers forming claws, aiming for his legs!

They wanted to completely dismantle all his ability to resist in an instant!

However.

Just as their fan-like hands were about to touch Lin Chen's body!

A sudden change occurred!

The expression on the face of Lin Chen, who had been calm with eyes as deep as an ancient cold pool, suddenly... changed!

That composure and indifference, as if Mount Tai were collapsing before him without a change in color, vanished without a trace!

Replacing it was a kind of extreme... "panic" and "fear"!

His pupils dilated sharply!

As if he had seen something extremely terrifying!

His body shrank back violently like a rabbit startled by a hound!

Then, with a "thump"!

He tripped over himself due to the excessive movement!

He fell in a disheveled manner into the bone-chilling snow!

"Ah... don't... don't come over!"

Lin Chen let out a "weak" scream filled with "tremolo"!

He scrambled backward on the snow with his hands and feet, waving his hands wildly in front of him, as if trying to push away the "misfortune" about to descend.

His once exceptionally handsome face was now filled with the most instinctive... fear and despair of a "weak, pitiful, and helpless" man facing irresistible violence!

The two female Cultivators who had already rushed to the front were stunned!

They had anticipated that the opponent might resist, or might beg for mercy, but they never expected that the opponent would be so pathetic, scared out of his wits!

Then they looked at each other and saw a trace of undisguised... contempt and disdain in each other's eyes!

"Tch! Thought he was some tough character who would make us put in some effort."

"Turns out he's just a coward who pissed his pants without even fighting!"

One of them spat a mouthful of saliva mixed with grass clippings into the snow with disdain.

The other stepped forward with long strides, grabbed Lin Chen by the collar of his gorgeous robe like a chick, and roughly lifted him from the snow!

"Brat! Behave yourself!" The female Cultivator's voice was rough like grinding sandpaper, "If you dare to howl like a ghost again! Believe it or not, This Madam will tear your mouth apart right now!"

Her voice was full of substantive threats, while Lin Chen, being held in mid-air, pushed his "acting" to the extreme!

His body trembled violently, like a leaf in the wind!

His teeth were chattering, making "clack-clack" sounds!

That pair of eyes, which should have been as deep as the starry sky, were now covered with a layer of crystalline "mist"!

As if he were about to cry on the spot from being scared by this vicious scene in the next second!

He said intermittently in a pleading tone with a heavy "crying voice": "He... Heroine... spare my life..."

"I... I, am not, a bad person... I am really not..."

"I... I was just, separated from the caravan... My spiritual energy... my spiritual energy was also, exhausted in the previous space storm..."

"Please... let me go... I... I can give you money... lots and lots of Spirit Stones..."

What a perfect standard image of a "weak man" who is greedy for life and afraid of death, scared out of his wits, has exhausted his spiritual energy, and can only hope to buy his life with money!

"Hahahahahaha!"

Seeing Lin Chen's "textbook-level" weak performance, the one-eyed scarred female Cultivator finally couldn't help it anymore and burst into rampant laughter filled with the superiority of a victor!

"Spirit Stones?! Hahaha! Brat, you probably haven't woken up yet, right?!"

Her laughter carried far in the cold wind, "In our Northern Territory! Strength is everything! Fists are the hard truth!"

"Now you are our 'prey'! Everything of yours, including your life, your body, your Storage Ring... are all our spoils of war!"

"Still want to negotiate terms with us?! Are you worthy?!"

A trace of jackal-like cruel mockery flashed in her single eye!

Then she raised her chin at the female Cultivator holding Lin Chen and ordered: "Black Tower! Search his body!"

"Strip everything valuable off him for This Madam! Don't leave a single hair!"

"Yes! Big Sister!"

The burly female Cultivator called "Black Tower" gave a savage laugh!

She reached out her other rough, calloused hand and started rummaging through Lin Chen's body unscrupulously!

Her movements were extremely rough, without any scruples.

Soon!

The Storage Pouch at Lin Chen's waist, which he had specially changed into for "acting," a common style and very ordinary material, was ripped off by her!

She roughly wiped away the Divine Soul imprint on it, which was so weak it could be ignored!

She swept her Divine Thought inside!

Immediately, her face showed an undisguised expression of disappointment.

"Tch! A poor ghost!"

"Inside, besides a few gaudy changes of clothes, there are less than a thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones! Not even enough to buy a few jars of good wine!"

"Damn it! A waste of effort!"

She threw the Storage Pouch to the scarred woman in annoyance.

The scarred woman took it and glanced at it, also with a look of disdain.

However, she soon cast her "hunting" desire-filled gaze back onto Lin Chen's handsome face, which was full of "terror."

The corners of her mouth curled up again with an unkind smile, looking up and down at Lin Chen with that single eye, just like a butcher looking at a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.

"Forget it."

"Mosquitoes are meat no matter how small."

"Although he is a poor ghost, at least he has such a decent face. We came out hunting this time and gained nothing; if we go back empty-handed like this, we will inevitably be punished by the Young Miss. Bringing him back to offer to the Young Miss can be considered an explanation, so we won't come back empty-handed."

After saying this!

She untied a black chain from her waist, which was tanned from the tendons of an unknown Yao Beast and flashed with faint Restriction runes!

"Snap!"

She threw the chain fiercely into the snow in front of Lin Chen!

Then she said coldly in a tone commanding "livestock": "Brat!"

"Put it on yourself!"

"Then run behind our wolves! Be a bit of entertainment for us!"

"If you dare to play any tricks, or can't keep up..."

A trace of bloodthirsty cold light flashed in her single eye!

"... Then don't blame us for dragging you back to Snow Wolf City like a dead dog!"

Thus.

On this vast and boundless frozen snowfield.

An extremely bizarre scene appeared.

More than a dozen burly female Cultivators riding giant ice wolves were moving forward unhurriedly, their savage laughter occasionally broken by the cold wind.

And behind them.

A handsome young man in luxurious white clothes, with a thick black chain around his neck, was trudging arduously through the thick snow, one foot deep and one foot shallow.

The cold wind tousled his ink-black long hair, and the ice and snow soaked his expensive robes.

He ran panting, his face "pale," and he almost fell several times, each time drawing even more unscrupulous mockery from the female Cultivators behind him.

He looked so disheveled and pitiful.

And those female Cultivators riding on the wolf backs would look back from time to time at his "miserable" appearance, bursting into bursts of wanton, superior laughter!

As if appreciating an interesting "toy" they had just captured!

However.

None of them noticed.

Deep within the eyes of the young man, whom they treated as a "pet" and humiliated at will, which seemed full of "fear" and "humiliation."

A glimmer of... cold light, even colder and deeper than this ten-thousand-year ice field, flashed and vanished!

Lin Chen was indeed "acting."

But his brain was running frantically at a speed beyond imagination!

His eyes, which had long secretly activated the Moonlight Divine Pupils, were like the highest-precision scanner, crazily collecting all information around him!

Although the conversation of those female Cultivators was not loud and mixed with the unique vulgar accent of the Northern Territory.

Under Lin Chen's hearing, which had long surpassed the limits of a Mortal, he still heard it clearly!

"Big Sister, what do you think the Young Miss will reward us with this time? This pretty boy looks much better than the last one."

"Hmph! It'll be good if she doesn't punish us! We didn't even get a hair of an 'Iron-Armored Ice Rhino' this time! Just caught this good-looking but useless 'pretty boy'!"

"Sigh, that's true... The Yao Beasts on the outskirts of the 'Black Wind Mountain' are really getting fewer and fewer! They've all been snatched by those bitches from the 'Wild Wind Stronghold' next door! Those goddamn things!"

"Damn it! Don't mention those bitches! Last time they even snatched the 'Snow Mountain Demon Ape' we managed to surround! When This Madam breaks through to the Middle Stage of the Golden Core, I will definitely take people to ransack their nest!"

Through their fragmented conversation full of "complaints" and "profanity," Lin Chen had roughly understood his current environment within a short half-hour!

This is the "Northern Territory" in the northernmost part of the Central Continent Sacred Domain!

A chaotic place with scarce resources, difficult survival, and belief in the most primitive "Law of the Jungle"!

And this hunting team that captured him belongs to a human city-state nearby called "Snow Wolf City"!

Their city lord is a female powerhouse at the Early Nascent Soul Stage!

And the "Young Miss" they mentioned, who is extremely favored and extremely spoiled, is the only daughter of this female city lord!

At the same time, Lin Chen also keenly captured a piece of information that was crucial to him!

— Snow Wolf City is not the only hegemon here!

Around them, there also exists a hostile force called "Wild Wind Stronghold"!

The two sides have been fighting for years to compete for the scarce resources on this barren land!

(Where there is conflict, there is... opportunity to exploit.)

A trace of deep light flashed in Lin Chen's eyes.

A preliminary plan had already quietly formed in his mind.

Two hours later.

A magnificent city-state built in a huge ice valley finally appeared at the end of the horizon.

That was Snow Wolf City!

The entire city was built by pouring a mixture of huge obsidian and ten-thousand-year black ice!

The city walls were a hundred feet high, covered with battle traces like sword slashes and axe chops, and one could even see the traces of beast blood that had long dried and turned black!

A rough, barbaric, and iron-blooded murderous aura rushed toward him even from a distance!

When Lin Chen was led by the iron chain symbolizing "humiliation," stepping into that huge city gate like a real "pet dog."

All the Northern Territory Cultivators coming and going on the street instantly cast their gazes full of "curiosity," "disdain," and "mockery" at him!

"Yo! Isn't this the people from the 'Black Wolf Hunting Team'? Where did they get such a delicate 'little man'?"

"Tsk tsk tsk, look at his skin, even more tender than the most expensive 'Snow Fox Fur' in our city! If this were in bed..."

"Hahaha! What kind of beautiful thing are you thinking about! This top-quality 'merchandise' must be what the Black Wolf Team is going to offer to the Young Miss! How could it be your turn?!"

"Sigh, what a pity... Such a handsome face, I'm afraid he won't live for three days before being ruined by the Young Miss, right? I heard the last one sent there was carried out the next day, with no good skin left on his whole body..."

All kinds of foul language and lewd gazes full of undisguised obscenity rolled toward Lin Chen like a tide from all directions!

They looked at him as if looking at a commodity with a clear price tag on the shelf!

Arbitrarily judging his "looks"!

Arbitrarily discussing in what "miserable" way he would be "damaged"!

This is a kind of extreme humiliation that completely strips you of the attribute of being a "human" and objectifies you completely!

However.

Facing this humiliating scene that would be enough to make any proud man explode with spiritual energy or even self-destruct on the spot.

The expression on Lin Chen's face remained that of "fear" and "cowardice."

He lowered his head, his body trembling.

As if he had been completely scared silly by these gazes full of "malice."

But deep in his heart.

It was a kind of... calmness that was cold to the extreme.

( ... A group of ants who don't know whether to live or die.)

(Laugh to your heart's content.)

(Enjoy your last revelry to your heart's content.)

The corners of his mouth, in a corner that no one noticed, slowly curled up into a grim arc.

(... Because very soon.)

(Your "God".)

(—is about to descend!)